Yee-kuang Heng - Risk, Global Governance and Security: The Other War on Terror (Routledge Global Security Studies)

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Risk, Global Governance and Security

This book applies risk society theory to the War on Terror, steering the discussion away from the militaristic discourse of the Bush era towards an emphasis on global cooperation and a new cosmopolitan agenda.

The literature and rhetoric of the war on terror has been dominated by dramatic high-profile military campaigns and division in the international community. This overlooks the various multilateral practices and cooperative processes that are emerging to combat global terrorism. President Bush himself had initially been at pains to stress that his war on terror would be like no other; it would involve not just military tools but financial, intelligence, police and diplomatic measures too. More than seven years since Bushs proclamation, and with a new occupant in the White House, the time is right for an in-depth evaluation of how this other war on terror has developed. Yet these relatively mundane regulatory dimensions have received much less attention than the hot wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where ongoing difficulties suggest that military force alone is inadequate in controlling globalised terrorism.

This book aims to redress this imbalance, by foregrounding these initiatives, tracing their implementation and reflecting on the implications for international relations. Adopting an analytical approach that seeks to incorporate theories of risk, global governance and security, this book aims to explore the overlapping multilevel and multilateral dynamics of the emerging global security architecture that have remained neglected and unmapped thus far in the war on terror.

This book will be of interest to students of risk politics, security studies, global governance and international relations in general.

Yee-Kuang Heng is Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK. Kenneth McDonagh is Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University.

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Series editors: Aaron Karp, Regina Karp and Terry Teriff

1 Nuclear Proliferation and International Security

Sverre Lodgaard and Morten Bremer Maerli

2 Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict

Debating fourth-generation warfare

Terry Terriff, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp

3 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Responding to the challenge

Edited by Ian Bellany

4 Globalization and WMD Proliferation

Edited by James A. Russell and Jim J. Wirtz

5 Power Shifts, Strategy and War

Declining states and international conflict

Dong Sun Lee

6 Energy Security and Global Politics

The militarization of resource management

Edited by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell

7 US Nuclear Weapons Policy After the Cold War

Russians, rogues and domestic division

Nick Ritchie

8 Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Dealing with fighters in the aftermath of war

Edited by Robert Muggah

9 Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations

The new military operating systems

Paul T. Mitchell

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10 American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear

Threat inflation since 9/11

Edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer

11 Risk, Global Governance and Security

The other war on terror

Yee-Kuang Heng and Kenneth McDonagh

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The other war on terror

Yee-Kuang Heng and Kenneth McDonagh

LONDON AND NEW YORK

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First published 2009
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